Elliott Smith: Trending quotes

“I'm a junkyard full of false startsAnd I don't need your permissionTo bury my love under this bare light bulb.The moon is a sickle cellIt'll kill you in time.”

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Coming Up Roses.
Lyrics, Elliott Smith (1995)

Love , Light , Time , Falseness

“Here's a song I made up while I was watching Xena the Warrior Princess with the sound off. It's a fact. I had a secret crush on Xena. It was a secret to me too. I wouldn't admit it. She's pretty fuckin' tough. She has a good yell… she kills the stupid gladiators with the log-trap. Release the log-trap! She releases the log-trap and they all get… crushed. They'd all wanna be with her if they could, but unfortunately they're not on her side. It's a lot better with the sound off. Really, it is. And the song didn't have anything to do with Xena… but… I was about half a bottle through Jameson's… if that makes any sense.”

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before playing "Between the Bars" at a concert in 1996. http://www.archive.org/details/esmith2006-09-25..flacf.

Secret , Stupidity , Sense , Princess

“Wearing clothes that clashWondering 'is this treasure, is this trash?'Still trying to decide<BR”

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All Cleaned Out.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

Clothes

“I could make you satisfied in everything you do,All your secret wishes could right now be coming trueAnd be forever with my poisoned armsAround you.No one's gonna fool around with us.”

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Angeles.
Lyrics, Either/Or (1997)

Secret , Fools

“The first time I saw youI knew it would never lastI'm not half what I wish I wasI'm so angryI don't think it'll ever passAnd I was bad news for you just becauseI never meant to hurt you”

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Pitseleh.
Lyrics, XO (1998)

Thinking , Time , Hurt

“I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]… I'm ready.”

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in Strange Parallel (1998).

Smile , Music , Business , Thinking

“Everything here is freeEverything but you and meThis painting never driesStupidity tries<BR”

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Stupidity tries.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

Painting

“I'm looking at a hand full of broken plans, and I'm tired of playing it down, you just want her to do anything to you, there ain't nothing you won't allow, you wake up in the middle of the night, from a dream you won't remember flashing on like a cop's light, you say she's waiting and I know what for, the white lady loves you more**The White Lady Loves You More”

Elliott Smith

Lyrics, Elliott Smith (1995)

Love , Dreams , Light , Waiting

“I'm sorry you seem so stung,and I'm sorry you feel you have to hold your tonguewhen you're so pretty and smart<BR”

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All Cleaned Out.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

Feeling

“Crooked spin can't come to rest,I'm damaged bad at best.”

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Say Yes.
Lyrics, Either/Or (1997)

“They took your life apartAnd called your failures artThey were wrong, thoughThey won't know'Til tomorrow”

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Tomorrow Tomorrow.
Lyrics, XO (1998)

Life , Failure

“Bored in a role, but he can't stopStanding up to sit back down,and lose the one thing found.Spinning the world like a toy top'till there's a ghost in every town.<BR”

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Can't Make A Sound.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

World

“What I used to be will pass away, and then you'll seeThat all I want now is happiness for you and me.<BR”

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Happiness.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

Happiness

“My mama told me 'baby stay cleanthere's no in between.'but all you ladies and you gentlemen,between is all you've ever seen or been.”

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A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

Baby

“Because your candle burns too brightwell, I almost forgot it was twilight. Even if I think that you are right, well, I'm tired of being down, I got no fight. You're wonderful, and it's beautiful, but I'm already somebody's baby. And if i went with you, I'd disappoint you, too.”

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Twilight.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

Beauty , Disappointment , Thinking , Fight

“The first true love that folded at the slightest touch,brought down like an old hotel,people digging through the rubble for things they can resell.<BR”

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Junk Bond Trader.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

Love , People

“London Bridge is safe and soundNo matter what you keep repeatingNothing's gonna drag me downTo a death that's not worth cheating”

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Baby Britain.
Lyrics, XO (1998)

Death , Cheating

“She appears composedSo she is, I supposeWho can really tell?She shows no emotion at allStares into space like a dead china doll”

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Waltz #2 (XO).
Lyrics, XO (1998)

Appearance , Dead

“Haven't laughed this hard in a long timeI better stop now before I start cryingGo off to sleep in the sunshineI don't want to see the day when its dying.”

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Twilight.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

Sleep

“This is the place where time reverses. Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses. Instruments shine on a silver trayDon't let me get carried away.”

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King's Crossing.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

Men , Time , Dead